Friday, October 16, 2015

MAHISAHSUR MARTYRDOM OBSERVED IN JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY

[Below is a press statement received from New Delhi, India that a group of people observed today, October the 9th, Mahishasur Martyrdom at one of the prestigious universities in India. This university appears to be producing radical social activists that seem to be bringing about social change in South Asia. ]

[Below is a press statement received from New Delhi, India that a group of people observed today, October the 9th, Mahishasur Martyrdom at one of the prestigious universities in India. This university appears to be producing radical social activists that seem to be bringing about social change in South Asia. ]

October 9, 2014

[Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai, the widely believed ideologue of the 10 year Janayuddha, the people's war against 'status-quo' for 'parivartankari agragami chhalang' - if we may in a civil phraseology - 'a giant leap forward' for a change in the country, that took some 16,000 Nepalese lives, may have walked around those areas also. The reason being, the Maoists rebellion started in 1996 in the country and intensified in those areas also until a ceasefire was announced to sign an agreement in 2006. ]

By B. K. Rana

This week at least three pictures from around the Himalayas caught our attention. One of them is a photograph of a hanging ram laced into a corset of 'human-ferry' being carried across Karnali River in Mugu District of Karnali Zone, Western Nepal, posted onto hisFacebook wall by one of the former prime ministers of Nepal, Dr. Babu Ram Bhattarai who, apparently has deep understanding of planning for all-round development of such regions: implying also infrastructural development such as: roads, bridges or suspension bridges for a kind of 'daily commute', where no road access is available. The western Nepal Mountain is difficult rugged terrain, remote and the least developed part of the country. This should also mean that the people in those areas are least educated and who virtually can't raise their voices loud for their basic needs for a living as the human being. He has shared the picture fromKantipur Daily and captioned - 'our transport system in the 21st century'.

Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai, the widely believed ideologue of the 10 year Janayuddha, the people's war against 'status-quo' for 'parivartankari agragami chhalang' - if we may in a civil phraseology - 'a giant leap forward' for a change in the country, that took some 16,000 Nepalese lives, may have walked around those areas also. The reason being, the Maoists rebellion started in 1996 in the country and intensified in those areas also until a ceasefire was announced to sign an agreement in 2006. All over the Internet, there are some pictures that show him walking around some remote areas in western Nepal. The question is not whether he saw the tuin - a ropeway over Sipaghat but why on earth didn't he think of ordering the concerned officials to build in those areas also some suspension bridges when he was the prime minister of the country? But there was also an online report that some Nepalese party-people had received government fund for building a bridge where there was no river running at all. There are such pictures all over the Facebook walls and some German tourists have recently posted a video of few students crossing swollen Trishuli River in a Tuin, or a dangerous ropeway carriage over a huge river in some other Nepalese mountains. Now, posting this picture Dr. Bhattarai is implying that Nepal's transportation system is not of the 21th century and which demands strong will power and commitment in the government to build more suspension bridges among the settlements where required. This is certainly a good gesture he is making here but the country is wasting lots of money on some of the all weather sickly party leaders' treatment abroad and which Dr. Bhattarai also could not resist while in the office. Dr. Bhattarai became the 35th Prime Minister of Nepal from August 2011 to March 2013.

Coming down also from Facebook, the other picture stunned us down here but it remains unclear as to when it was taken actually. But it certainly seems being taken in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. It is a picture of some people demonstrating in the streets of Kathmandu, holding a banner reading - BhikhariEkataSamaj,Nepal - 'Beggars Unity Society- Nepal' ! So, in democracy people can form a union peacefully but the beggars particularly in the capital city of Kathmandu doing so - does seem not very spontaneous at all. It does seem motivated to degrade Nepal down the gutter. The political party leaders, the government, bureaucrats and other people are also responsible for their coming out in the streets. Prof. Nava Raj Panta of Gimcheon University, South Korea commenting to our Facebook post yesterday wrote - 'some 15 years ago, an Indian Tourist Bus dropped-off many beggars from Gorakhpur at Kathmandu's Kalanki and those of whom, few days later, appeared in Dallu Bridge Area and Ratna Park as well in Kathmandu'. He suspects those are the beggars from India and suggests Nepal government to check whether they are any Nepalese nationals or not. According to the laws of the land, no foreigners can form, register and run any organization in Nepal.

Whether the beggars were from Nepal or India, as Prof. Panta has remarked above, is not the question we wanted to raise here. The question here is how has Nepal gone down the drains over these recent years ? Or, where has gone Nepal after the recent socio-political change ? Was the change brought to whomever for doing whatever they wanted in the country ? The picture does not show anything one would feel proud of being a Nepalese or becoming the people of Nepalese origin in other parts of the world. Rather with this picture everywhere in the social media, the name of world famed Gorkhalis - in other words, Nepalese people is now tarnished again. This is certainly a nasty picture that has come out from Kathmandu. The beggars should have organized themselves in some other name to raise their voice.

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THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS CRITICAL OF BAMCEF LEADERSHIP

http://youtu.be/k4Bglx_39vY
[Palash Biswas, one of the BAMCEF leaders and editors for Indian Express spoke to us from Kolkata today and criticized BAMCEF leadership in New Delhi, which according to him, is messing up with Nepalese indigenous peoples also.
He also flayed MP Jay Narayan Prasad Nishad, who recently offered a Puja in his New Delhi home for Narendra Modi's victory in 2014.]